LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4752, 31 March 1884, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

(Via Wellington, This Day.)

(Pee Pbess Association.)

London, March 19

A rumor is still beine persistently circulatedlo the effect that Mr Gladstone intends^j| resign his position as Prime Minister, and dissolve Parliament.

March 20th

It is rumoured that Major General Seratchley is to be appointed Her Majesty's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, in succession to Sir Arthur Gordon, who retired last November.

March 21st,

It is understood that numerous applications have been received by the British Cabinet, from gentlemen desirous of sue ceeding the [Marquis of Normanby, as Governor of Victoria, but the appointment as yet has only been officially offered to Lord Reay, who recently declined. The Tablet, a Roman Catholic journal, published in London, announces that Dr Moran, Bishop of Assory, has been officially appointed Archbishop of Sydney, in succession to the late Dr Vaughan.

March 24,

A company is being floated, to be known as the Lonclon-Ooloniai Meat Co , with a capital of £500,000. The object of the company is to supply its members with colonial frozen meats at cheap rates. The general public will also be supplied, and the meat delivered from the company's establishment in carts specially con* structed for the purpose.

March 25.

Admiral Hewitt,[at present at Souakim, has issued a notice ordering the whole of the slaves who ran away since the com^ mencement of the iusurr-etioa, to return to their masters